Foreign Military Sales

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Foreign military sales program refers to the transfer and trade of arms and military equipment carried out by the defense industry. However, this program has been highly controversial in nature because of various national and security concerns that it gives rise to. This paper analyzes the article "The Problem with Foreign Military Sales Reinvention" by Isaiah Wilson. This article deals with the problems connected with foreign military sales reinvention, which is currently the most important topic of debate in political circles. Foreign military sales program is an extremely important system of transfer of arms but it also poses various security threats and acts as a regulatory force where arms control is concerned.

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"Without a national security strategy to act as the basis of FMS reinvention program, FMS is likely to turn dangerous for national interests as it is mainly "driven by a default strategy based on consequences and customer demands and incentives." In other fields, this customer-driven strategy works as it addresses customer needs and demands, but in the field of military trade, such strategies can prove dangerous in the long run since arms are involved. However a complete dependence on national security strategy might also adversely affect commercial interests of defense industry. For this reason, a healthy balance is to be maintained between security policy and customer-driven strategies. Reinvention of this program must therefore seek to strike a balance between the two in order to make FMS safe, feasible and viable."

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